China’s internet and technology sector is a bubble waiting to burst, according to an annual Asia-Pacific private equity report for 2019 released by Boston-based global management consultancy Bain & Company on Friday.According to the report, many private equity (PE) investors are stuck with portfolio companies bought over the past five years at high multiples. They now also face a deteriorating outlook for their investment.“That scenario, if and when it comes, will make it tough for general… Source link

Standard Chartered said on Monday that it would spin off its private-equity business in a management-led buyout and sell most of its private-equity investment portfolio to funds managed by a unit of British asset manager Intermediate Capital Group. The bank, which is based in London but generates much of its revenue in Asia, has been reducing the size of its private-equity business since 2016, with an eye towards an eventual exit. Terms of the deal were not released. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of…